Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Girl Scouts Heart of Central California serves more than
28,000 local girls—offering financial assistance, quality programming,
volunteer support, training, and more. Like any nonprofit, GSHCC needs the
ongoing support of our families, friends and community to continue building
girls of courage, confidence and character in Northern and Central California.

This year GSHCC girls, families, troops and service units
came up with many creative, fun and exciting ways to support our council though
donations to our Family Partnership Campaign. Our new blog series—Family
Partnership Highlights—will feature ways our awesome community has supported
GSHCC.

Our first Family Partnership
Highlight features Golden River Service Unit and their awesome World Thinking
Day event.

Golden River Service Unit in Modesto held a unique and
memorable event for World Thinking Day 2014—and supported the GSHCC’s Family
Partnership in the process!

On February 13, Golden River held “Dime-a-Taste,” an
interactive event where Girl Scouts and

families learned about Girl Guides and
sampled foods from around the world for a dime per taste, and collected
“passport” stamps for each country they learned about. Troops signed up to
represent different WAGGGS countries, and presented country and Girl Guides
information, costumes, decorations, food to taste, and a unique stamp for the
passports.

Girl Scout Brownie Isabell N. attended the event, where she
enjoyed learning about other countries and cultures. When we asked Isabell what
she liked best about the event, she couldn’t decide! She said, “I loved going
to see the booths and the different costumes and displays. I also loved trying
all the foods, because the foods from other countries were so new to me.”

Dime-a-Taste was extremely
successful, teaching girls about other countries and earning more than $400.00,
which Golden River donated to the GSHCC Family Partnership fund. Way to go,
Golden River! We appreciate your support and are so impressed with your great
event.

Do you know a Girl Scout, family, troop, or service unit we should feature in
our Family Partnership Highlights series? Please email the story and photos to
funddev@girlscoutshcc.org.